Recoil-pad for firearms.



S HUNTLEY.

RECO 0R FIREARMS.

APPLICAT D MAR. 8, l9l5.

Patented Apr. 10,1917.

45 bility by compression; while the laminations v STATES PATENT OFFICE.

"STEPHEN A. HUNTLEY, or OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AssIGNon TO THE HUNTLEY MANU-FACTURING COMPANY, or OMAHA, NEBRASKA, A CORPORATION or NEBRASKA.

RECOIL-PAD FOR FIREARMS.

Application filed March 8, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPH N A. HUNT- LEY, a. citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city of Omaha, county of Douglas, and State ofNebraska, :have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRecoil-Pads for Firearms, and have described the same in the followingspecification, illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

. My invention relates to that class of elas-v tic pads which areindividually afiixed to-the butt of a 'gunstock, or the like, to cushionthe reaction of shooting, as affecting the person of the gunner. Itisthe 'objectof the invention to regulate the deformation of such a padunder compression; to render the .pad in its entirety elasticallycompressible in one direction, and practically incompressible, as wellas inflexible, in all other directions; to distribute-in a superiormanner the reactionary stress which is produced in the pad by the recoilof the gun; to combine .in

such a pad the needed elastic deformability in thedirection of principalcompression and a less degree of deformability in other directions; andin general to produce a superior pad of the specified class. Toaccomplish these results I incorporate in my improved pad, as partsthereof, a plurality'of adherent laminations of two kinds, havingdiverse elastic and flexible pro erties.

In said drawings, illustrating the best manner in which I havecontemplated-applying the principles of the invention, Figure l is aside elevation of a portion of a gunstock provided with a pad which isconstructed in accordance with theseprinciples. Fig. 2 is a rear endelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the sectionline of Fig. 2.

In the illustrated specimen of.my invention,'ea ch of the laminations 1,2 and 3, is a Y block, or plate, ofsponge rubber, so-called,

or other similar material, having a general ellipsoidal form and highelastic deforma- 4, 5, 6 and 7 ,are com osed of common red rubberpacking, 'so-cal ed, or other similar material, having lessdeformability: and greater stifl'ness than the first-mentionedlaminations. From their prevailing type of deformability as described,the plates 1, 2 and 3, are designated in the subjoined claims ascompressible; and the plates 4, 5 and 6,

- Specification of Letters Patent.

recoil of the gun.

Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

Serial No. 12,307.

as flexible. All these lamina'tions, being flat in the direction oftheir width, as shown in Fig.3, and normally of uniform curvature in thedirection of their length, as shown in Fig. 1, are held coherentlytogether throughout "their mutually contacting surfaces, by rubbercement orthe like; while the entire Stratified pad is glued or otherwisesecured to the stock 8 in the position shown. By the way of partialexception to the foregoing statement regarding flatness, the face of theplate 4 is rounded off along its opposite longer edges, asshown in Fig.3.

When the gun is held in the usual position, with the pad crosswise ofthe collarbone, or-clavicle, of the gunner 'in the act of shooting, theplate 4, without sensible described'curvature by the reaction againstthe outside face of the plate, that reaction being exerted mainly orentirely upon the middle portion, as distinguished from the endportions, of that face. By this bending of the plate 4, the contiguousplate 1 is deformatively compressed, in the direction of its thickness,against the flexible plate'5; the portion of the plate 1 under effectivecompression extending from the indicated plane of section in oppositedirections a limited distance variable with the force of the By theresulting pressure against the middle of the plate 5, the latter,without sufl'ering appreciable compression, is bent against the nextplate 2 to an increased curvature similarly variable. Thereby the plate2, the force of the recoil being sufficient, is deformative'lycompressed against the flexible plate 6, which is bent thereby in thesame direction against the compressible plate 3, and so on, the lastcompressible plate being simply compressed without bending, against theplate 7, held inflexibly to the stock 8. In this way each ofthe flexibleplates tends to distribute force toward the ends of the compressibleplate immediately before it; while the flexi-, ble plates collectivelyresist peripheral cleformation of the ad in its entirety.

I claim as my 1nvention A recoil pad for shot guns and like fire armsbraced from the shoulder when discharged, comprising a plurality of softrubbeing fixed face to face to said. pads, and mainder of the shockpressure or expansion said pads and non-elastic members being as setforth. 10 positioned to alternate with each other, In testimpny whereofI subscribe this whereby the relative innermost pad Will takespecification in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 up the resultant maximum pressure or ex- Y STEPHEN A. HUNTLEY.

pansion from the gun discharge recoil or Witnesses: shock and theintermediate and outermost WILLARD EDDY,

pads Will successively neutralize the re- WM. J. HoTz.

